Lane Filtering. Became legal in Tasmania in 2018. RSAC was requested to do an advertising campaign as there have been complaints about bikes filtering. This has now been completed,

Ride to Survive Road-skill courses for upskilling of motorcyclist to be pursued.

AJL thank you for being the TMC’s major sponsor

TMT thank you for being a sponsor of the TMC

RHD thank you for being a sponsor of the TMC

Anti-Bikie Laws TMC attended meetings and made representation to no avails. Laws were passed but have not come into effect yet 27 May 2019.

A motorcycle safety audit of the Lake Leake Road

With Safe System Solutions, Tasmania Police, and motorcycling stakeholders

The following day stakeholders attended a Safe System workshop in Launceston to discuss the findings of the safety audit and to identify potential countermeasures to address motorcyclist safety on the Lake Leake Road. Recommendations to improve motorcyclist safety on the Lake Leake Road will be presented to RSAC in a future paper.

Tasmania Police 27th November 2018 trial Unmarked Motorcycle, The motorcycle is a Triumph Tiger 800 XRx (black). The motorcycle is fitted with lights (covert), siren and speed detection radar. Riders will be fitted with helmet-mounted video cameras – the first such use by road police in Tasmania. Use of a helmet-mounted camera will:

Enable evidence of the offence to be captured on video – this will significantly reduce the number of appeals, and

Enable the rider to choose not to intercept (e.g. too dangerous, unacceptable disruption to commuters) but still capture evidence of the offence.

After the first 3 months it exceeded expectations and has now been expanded to the North and North West of Tasmania.

Motorcycle Training

Since the introduction of the new training of motorcyclists there has been a marked reduction in MAIB claims, as you can see by the figures below.

2018

2017

2016

2015

Novice L

37

63

71

70

Novice P1

21

35

28

29

Novice P2

23

26

25

34

Novice Total

81

124

124

133

With these figures showing the decrease of claims, the TMC has requested the government raise the speed which novice motorcycle riders can do to the same as applies to novice car drivers. Which would also increase novice rider safety?

May 2019 State Growth asked the TMC to do an audit on the Great Eastern Drive for some motorcycle infrastructure improvements to be identified. Completed and handed to state growth.

We have a new minister for Infrastructure Hon Michael Ferguson, we have arranged a meeting with the minister in September.